Clothes-pin.



H. H. SELL.

CLOTHES PIN. APPLICATION FILED IIAR,'26. 19m,

LMU/QSC, I IPIIIQHIQIIJun@I,1915.

FEI l l HATTIE H. SELL, 0F GILBERTSVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA.

CLOTHES-PIN.

Specioaton of Letters Patent.

Patented J une 1, 1915.

Apimcatibn mea Maren 26', 1914. serial Nn, 827,420.

To all 'whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, HATTIE I-I. SELL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Gilbertsville, in the county of -Montgomery, State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothes-Pins; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact de! scription of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it apL pertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to clothes pins,

The object of the invention is to provide a device of this character adapted to be constructed of a single strand of wire, and which is s'imple and durable, and will serve to retain an article upon a clothes line against accidental displacement.

y With the above and other objects in view the in ertfr consists in the details of construction and in the arrangement and comfully described and particularly pointed out in the appended claim.

In describing the invention in detail reference will be had to the accompanying drawings Vwherein like characters of reference denote corresponding parts in the several views, and in which?- `Figure 1 is a sideelevation illustrating the application ot the improved clothes pin; Fig. a perspective View of the clothes pin detached; Fig. 3, a section on the line 3'-3 of Fig. 1 showing thekeepcr at the central portion of the pin before same is moved into confining relation to a clothes line, and Fig. 4, a View similar to 3 showing the position of the keeper after same has been moved into confining relation-to a clothes line.

Referring to the drawings the impro-ved clothes pin is indicated generally at A and is shown constructed of a single length of resilient wire bent to .form a plurality of coils 10, the outermost coils 10 beingY connected by one extreme end of the wire 11. The

other extreme end ot the wire is bent U- shaped as at 12 and the free terminal thereof is adapted to be engaged over the coil 10 remote from the inner end of said U-shaped end to confine a clothes line 13 between same and the end 11. It will of course be noted that the free terminal of the end 12 can be disengaged from the coil 10 to permit the insetion of the clothes line 13,*as clearly shown in the drawings. The wire constituting the pin is further bent and shaped to form on each side of the coils 10 coperating V- shaped clamping arms 1a and 15, the connected end of these arms being further bent to form loops 16 disposed in planes at rightv angles to the central plane of the pin. The arms 111 and 15 "are provided adjacent the loop 16 with outwardly and inwardly bent portions which form a seat for the clothes line 13 when the pin is applied as will be obvious.

The clothes pin is adapted to be secured to the clothes line 13 by first confining the latter between the ends 11 and 12 in the manner heretofore stated. The arms 15 and 16 are 'then `pressed into embracing relation to the clothes line until'the latter seats between the outwardly and inwardly curved portions 17. To disengage the pin from the clothes line it is only necessary to draw the loops 16 toward each other.

What is claimed is A clothes pin formed from a single strand of resilient wire bent to form a plurality of coils and two pairs of cooperating clamping arms'7 the arms of one pair extending from the outer members of the coils and the arms of the otherV pair extending Jfrom the inner members of the coils, the connected portions of said clamping arms being bent to .form loops disposed in planes at right angles to the central plane of the pin, and one end of -the wire connecting the outermostoilsand 

